By OGJ editors
WASHINGTON, DC, Mar. 20 -- The nation's fuel suppliers and the American Automobile Association Thursday assured US consumers that US military action in Iraq has not compromised fuel supplies.
"The nation's oil and natural gas industry is working hard to ensure that supplies of fuel to American consumers continue uninterrupted," representatives of five leading fuel groups and AAA said today in a joint statement.
"Consumers can be confident in the continuing reliability of fuel supplies. Gasoline and diesel fuel inventories are adequate to meet normal demand and refinery production remains strong. Motorists should continue to purchase gasoline as they usually would," said the joint statement issued by AAA, the American Petroleum Institute, the Petroleum Marketers Association of America, the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, the Service Station Dealers of America and Allied Trades and NATSO, the association representing America's travel plazas and truck stops.
